Watched Longlegs for the second time, We have to thank Oz Perkins and Nicolas Cage for reviving the music of David Bowie's frenemy Marc Bolan (T - Rex).
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For those who can understand German, play this one really loud. Nena. "Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann
Nena's first international hit, "99 Luftballons." This song's lyrics and meaning are very dark.
I don't understand German, and this isn't rock. In fact its disco, from 1975. But it's my favourite German language song...
How many popular rock songs were originally written by Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter? One of them is Black Betty.
And then there was this obscure ditty.
Leadbelly passed away almost 20 years before Led Zeppelin formed. Not sure how many Leadbelly songs LZ recorded, this one is confirmed.
Ledbetter was a veteran of the Chitlin Circuit (like Redd Foxx), he passed away in 1949.
And then there was this obscure ditty.
Leadbelly passed away almost 20 years before Led Zeppelin formed. Not sure how many Leadbelly songs LZ recorded, this one is confirmed.
Ledbetter was a veteran of the Chitlin Circuit (like Redd Foxx), he passed away in 1949.
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and its been said that Black Betty was originally a term for a rifle.....................Ram Jam reconstructed the song and made it into a rock anthem
I think a lot of them were cheap, that he played in one song per live set for that purpose only. But the guitars I saw him destroy in their early years were often P90 equipped Gibson Les Paul Juniors and similar great guitars, which as a guitar nut disturbed me greatly.
"Jump Blues" - the roots of rock and roll, originally popular in the late 1940's
Same as Big Joe Turner, Roy Brown, Amos Milburn, etc.
Here's the original from the early 50's by Ella Johnson:
There was a "jump blues/swing" revival in the early 1990's with a lot of white/mixed groups such as Roomful Of Blues getting into the style, with swing dancing or "jitterbug" becoming stylish again for a few years.
"The roots of the swing revival are generally traced back to 1989, which saw the formation of several of the scene's most prominent figures: Los Angeles' Royal Crown Revue and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, who often stuck close to playing traditionally-styled jump blues and rockabilly; San Francisco's Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, who showcased vocal jazz and blues influences; and Eugene, Oregon's Cherry Poppin' Daddies, who incorporated elements of punk rock and ska into swing and jazz music.
California soon emerged as the center of the burgeoning neo-swing movement, with such clubs as Los Angeles' Brown Derby and San Francisco's Club DeLuxe regularly hosting swing and jazz bands as well as offering free swing dancing lessons. By the early 1990s, swing music had started appearing in popular culture, serving as the focal point of the 1993 drama Swing Kids while featuring heavily in the 1994 comedy The Mask, in which Royal Crown Revue made an on-screen cameo. By this time, retro swing had started expanding outside of its West Coast roots, leading to the formation of swing bands in such places as Texas (8½ Souvenirs, The Lucky Strikes), Michigan (The Atomic Fireballs, The Deluxtone Rockets), North Carolina (Squirrel Nut Zippers) and Canada (Big Rude Jake, Johnny Favourite Swing Orchestra).
In 1996, the American comedy Swingers, which featured scenes filmed at The Derby and a musical performance by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, became a critical and commercial success and is frequently credited with bringing the swing revival further into the cultural mainstream."
If your search "jump blues " on Wikipedia there's a good article on the original roots of it.
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